Hook-and-eye tape



Aug. 20, 1929. V D. SILBERMAN 7 1,725,107

HOOK AND EYE TAPE Filed Oct. 8, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR Maw ATTOR EY 1929- D. SILBERMAN I 1,725,107

HOOK AND EYE TAPE Filed Oct. 8, 1927 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 QMMZUKMMM INVENTOR Patented Aug. 20, 1929.

PATENT OFFICE.

UNITED STATES DAVID SILBERMAN, OF LONG BEACH, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR T SIMON L. RUSKIN, TRUSTEE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

HOOK-AND-EYE TAPE.

Application filed October 8, 1927.

My invention relates to rivetless, stitchless hook and eye tapes which are an improvement on the invention disclosed in my application for U. S. Letters Patent Ser.

N 0. 170,244, filed February 23, 1927, and it is my object to produce a strong tape which may be readily attached to a garment and in which the hooks or eyes are secured to the tape without sewing or riveting by engaging the wire forming the hooks or eyes directly with the tape itself. Another objeet is to leave a small portion of the wire forming the hooks or eyes visible on the back of the tape to serve as a guide in sewing the tape, face down, on a garment. A further object is the location of the bases of the hooks or eyes in a fold so that the full strength of the woven fabric is utilized in resisting pulling strains. A still further object is to so lock the hooks or eyes both above and below the plies that no lateral movement on the tape can occur.

In the drawing Fig. 1 is a face view of a hook tape embodying my invention, partly torn away; Fig. 2 a like back view of the structure of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 a sectional View of the structure of Fig. 1 on the line 3-3 thereof; Fig. 4; a face view of an eye tape; Fig. 5 a back view of the structure of Fig. 4; Fig. 6 a sectional View of the structure of Fig. 4 on the line 66 thereof; Fig. 7 a view of a partly formed fastening device; Fig. 8 a face View of a slight modification of the eye tape in which none of the wire is exposed on the back; Fig. 9 a sectional view of the structure of Fig. 8 on the line 99 thereof; Fig. 10 a sectional view of the structure of Fig. 8 with one ply lifted; Fig. 11 a face View of a modified tape in which the fastening device is locked against lateralmovement; Fig. 12 a sectional view of the structure of Fig. 11 onthe line 1212 thereof; and Fig. 13 a view showing the crossing of the wires of the fastening device to prevent lateral movement.

To produce my invention a specially woven 3-edge tape is employed. This has a single ply 1 at one edge and double plies 2 and 3 at the other edge, the junction of all the plies being near the median line of the tape.

The fastening devices are hooks 4 or eyes 5 and are of the usual wire construction.

Serial No. 224,952.

They are partly pre-formed as shown in Fig. 7, the bases being unfinished. While in the condition shown in Fig. 7 the wire just in advance of the base loops 6 or 7, and below the engaging portions 8 or 9, is passed through the single ply 1 from front to rear, then back through the single ply 2 from rear to front so that the base loops, after forming, lie between the plies 2 and 3 and against the junction of the three plies. In this way any pull on the hooks or eyes comes against the line of union of the plies and great strength is obtained without riveting or sewing. In this form of the invention a small portion of the wire forming the hooks or eyes is visible on the back of the tape, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, 5 and 6, and serves as a guide to the sewing machine operator in sewing the tape, face down, on a garment. The engaging portions 8 or 9 of the hooks or eyes lie above the outer faces of the plies 1 and 3 so that a concealed hook and eye tape is produced, the base loops being buried between the plies 2 and 3.

In the slight modification shown in Figs. 8, 9 and 10 I have attached the fastening devices to the tape in such manner that none of the wire shows on the back .of the tape and at the same time the base loops lie against the junction of the three plies so that the resistance to pulling strains is retained. The wires of the partly formed fastening devices are pushed through the junction of the plies 1, 2 and 3 and the bases 10 are formed between the plies 2 and 3. The operative portion 11 ,of the fastening devices then lie above the ply 1 and the bases 10 are wholly concealed between the plies 2 and 3, but the pull comes against the strongest part of the tape, the junction line of the three plies.

In Figs. 11, 12 and 13 I have shown how the wires forming the fastening devices may be crossed on the face of the tape so that the fastening devices will have no lateral movement on the tape. The fastening device 12 is pushed through the plies so that the operative portion 13 lies above the ply 1 and the base loops 14 lie between the plies 2 and 3 against the junction of the three plies. The wire forming the fastening device is crossed at 15, as best shown in Fig. 13, and this crossing of the Wires lies above the plies 1 and 3 and against the junction of the three plies so that the fastening device is locked to the tape against lateral movement in either direction.

By this construction all sewing and riveting is eliminated and the tape can be quickly and cheaply produced by adding suitable feeding attachments to the hook or eye forming machines, thereby producing finished tape with a minimum of time, handling and expense.

By the term fastening device in the following claimI mean either the hooks or the eyes, as the tape and manner of engaging the wire and tape is the same in either case.

I claim Rivetless stitchless hook and eye tape comprising a strip of integrally woven fabric having a single ply at one edge and divided into two plies near its median line, a plurality of spaced wire fastening devices, each composed of an operative portion and a base portion, the wires forming the fastening devices passing through a single ply from front to rear and then through the lower of the two plies from rear to front and serving as the 'sole means for securing said fastening devices to the fabric, whereby the bases lie between the two folds and against the junction ,of the plies, and the operative portions are exposed on the outer face of the tape.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

DAVID SILBERMAN. 

